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[video by crowbabies. original caption: My stinky baby]

Sometimes I don’t understand why a fandom has decided to create a popular side ship out of whole cloth and like two onscreen interactions (sorry xicheng shippers).

But I absolutely respect the thought process behind seeing scorpion king, the poorest of meow meows, and his whole….deal with zhao jing and simply giving him a different less evil old man to work out his freudian issues on. You can take the xie-er out of his fucked up sugar daddy relationship but you can’t take the daddy kink out of the xie-er, etc.

xie wang/ye baiyi just makes sense really.

I think it's important to let guys be gender non conforming without telling them they're a girl, cause actually misgendering people is still shit even when you are pro trans. "You're a girl, an egg waiting to crack, and that's ok" how about you are a boy and a man and it's still ok if you want to do something that doesn't align with traditional ideals of your gender. You can still be he/him in a skirt and makeup.

"If you wear pink/like floral scents/write with gel pens/whatever then you're a girl" is not the progressive statement that some people think it is.

Everyone has permission to be a wizard.

i want GAY SEX and MONEY

i want GAY SEX and MONEY

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

Here’s a site that has literally every official (and most UA) dnd stuff

including the books and campaigns

and you can add homebrew

Hey rb this!!!

Guys don’t share this kinda thing people may use it to get access to the dnd source books for free instead of paying for them. This is extremely dangerous for the flawless company that wizards of the coast is.

Gradually getting more bland and cookie cutter

Shoutout to whoever picked a golf to use for this infograph, because it’s probably an intentional reference to the “Harlequin” golf, which as you can see by comparing the modle to the infograph, is unfortunately a relic of the time when colors were winning.

how to make your lady characters even cooler: give her a happy trail

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Sensual or sexual? With social media these days it's hard to know what and isn't acceptable. I really like this picture and even though I feel it shows nothing inappropriate I am 100% certain it will get flagged up as sexual content on certain platforms.

I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.

that’s already how it is in australia

That’s just so fucked up. :( Do certain medical conditions exempt you?

?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.

I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.

Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this: 

Or this: 

Or this: 

You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it. 

And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote.  Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote. 

And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile. 

ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.

Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.

A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.

And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.

“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ

For the last time, for everyone who still doesn’t understand: not voting is not a tool of resistance, it’s a tool of surrender.

Another reason Americans flip out over the idea of it being illegal to not vote is basically every crime in the US results in jail sentences, and people who served time are second class citizens. Some states even have “three strikes” laws (unless they all got repealed) where doing three minor crimes would get you a life sentence.

Something being “illegal” meaning you get a small fine pretty much only happens to stuff involving cars or giant multinational corporations. When Americans hear that not voting is a crime they assume that means you go to jail and have your life completely ruined.

Then you have all the voter suppression in the US, including explicitly racist stuff like closing polling offices or limiting hours in majority Black districts. If it was illegal to not vote they wouldn’t reverse any of that, they would celebrate at a new excuse to toss nonviolent “criminals” into jail to use as slave labor.

I just don’t think people are aware enough of how completely fucked up the American legal system is and how justified it is for Americans to fear stuff being made illegal. Mandatory voting might work great in other places but there’s big problems America needs to deal with before it would work here.

Also remember that in Florida, there were people who had been convicted of felony crimes – a class of conviction that removed their right to vote – but completely served their sentences, and then were told that after finishing their sentences their right to vote had been reinstated. They received valid voter registration cards and ballots in the mail, or were registered at events held by election officials, both cases where a database of eligible voters is (theoretically) consulted to make sure the registrant is eligible to vote.

When these people voted, they were arrested for voting illegally.

They were told, in effect, that they should have known their own eligibility status better than the officials in charge of overseeing voter registration, with access to a database of eligible voters. This is a twisting of the relevant law, since the definition of this type of fraudulent voting in Florida requires that the perpetrator knows they aren’t eligible to vote and do it anyway, not that they vote believing in good faith the officials who told them it would be okay knew what they were talking about.

The penalty is up to 5 years in prison and up to $5000 in fines.

Yup, that’s right, the fine they face for voting when they believed their right to vote had been reinstated is one hundred times the fine described above for not participating in mandatory voting.

In many of these cases, the people convicted had served the prison time and parole associates with their sentences, but had not yet paid fees associated with either the conviction, restitution, or court costs. It can be difficult or impossible for them to find out if they owe anything, let alone how much and where or who to pay. There is no central source of that information.

Imagine being someone in Florida who had to choose between paying $50 every two years (and every special election?) to be safe, but disenfranchised, or risking 5 more years in prison and $5000 in fines to do what the law requires you to do, if you’re eligible, without taking any steps to clarify the legality of actually doing it.

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism